1969 Camaro at the Roadster Shop

[frojoe]

The lifts in the assembly room are by Rotary. Both are in ground lifts so we could have a smaller foot print, cleaner look, and easier to work with out the upright poles in the way.

This pic looks funny, like they're just lying there and with the help of a couple buddies could be moved quite easily.... not so much haha.

[Josue]

Subbed!!!

[nickv]

Very cool! Shop and work you guys are doing are both exceptional!

Nick
Broken Bolt Garage

[ROADSTER SHOP]

Further progress on the panel replacement.

[ROADSTER SHOP]

Smoothing out the firewall.

[John Wright]

Looks great...I gotta ask, how do you guys get a bead roller in there to do the firewall with the panel already in place? Wait, I think that I see clecos in the pictures before the bead rolling.

[CYCOROB]

looks to me like the car is going to be mini tubed and i think if you tub a first gen you need a diff. tank

when you mini tub you can still use the stock fuel tank . it depends on the rear suspention set up you use .
if you use stock style spring you have to use a narrowed tank.
if you use dse quad link style set up , you can use stock size tank.

[craigs73]

the cars looking great as usual you guys make it look so easy

[RS Performance]

We have made some great progress in the last few months- so time for some updates! Passenger side installed and modified to fit. We widened the mini-tubs and finished the install. Started on to the driver side quarter and fitment. Also fit the front end and completed the driver side inner fender.

We started by fitting the passenger side quarter and noticed that we could drive a truck between it and the door!



The latch pillar portion was cut off the main quarter and the quarter was then fit where it needed to go. A filler strip added to bridge the needed space.





Final welded and metal finished





A taller tire and lower ride height in the rear didn't give enough clearance with the standard deep tubs. The tubs were split and widened to allow for the 335 20" PS2's in the back.

[RS Performance]

Cleaned up the flange on the inner fender and extended it over the upper shock mount and control arm.







Welding up the seam between the fender and lower valance corner.

[RS Performance]

All of the metal work to get the car back to a solid starting point has been wrapped up, so we can now move on to the custom fabrication.

We fabbed up the louvers for the stock hood to give it a more modern look.





Cut the stock "gills" out of the quarters and have begun the new inset scoop look.

[RS Performance]

A few shots of the new gills/ fins that will go into the quarter opening.

Started with rough cut aluminum:



Then began cleaning up and radiusing the edges



Once the shape was finalized, we went back and subtly curved the pieces to match the curve of the body.

[RS Performance]

Here is the work on the rear body panel/lower valance

[RS Performance]

Creating the spoiler: The aim with this piece was to keep a stock 'appearing' spoiler with just enough of a subtle difference to make you look twice!

[RS Performance]

A couple more updates on some of the details on the car -
Some under-hood detail:

[RS Performance]

Tucking and shaping the front bumper to fit with the fenders and grille opening.







Fabrication of a new front spoiler to compliment the Marquez front valance. Also with the same theme as other areas of the car with a factory-ish silhouette but with a more modern and updated feel to the details.

[RS Performance]

A couple more shots now it's on the ground -
(Actual front wheel will be spaced outward more - these are just rollers)

[RS Performance]

On to body and paint!
We have stripped the car, metal prepped it, primed everything and have reassembled the car. Body work begins after all of the panels are final aligned.





Primed and ready for blocking.



Final prime. Ready for final blocking and then into the booth.



Rhino Linned the bottom of the car for a clean, durable finish.



And a few painted panels,

[RS Performance]

Chassis assembly progress.

[RS Performance]

Some paint updates: